Health Service Modelling Associates Programme Lambda
Entities are the service users in your model.
Entities arrive and move through your system…
Generators bring entities into being.
We might have multiple generators for different kinds of patients, if they arrive at different rates.
Example of patients arriving via ambulance and via walk-in, with clearly different arrival rates
Example of multi-step mostly linear pathway, with patients having the possibility of leaving at multiple steps
*Example of simple one-step
Talk about the importance of defining your measurable metrics
You’re now going to have a go with an interactive app.
In the app, you are running a hospital.
You usually have 24 rooms available, which are divided between
With 24 rooms, your system is coping.
Due to building work, you are temporarily going to have 20 rooms available.
You need to reallocate the number of rooms available to different steps of the pathway - but is it possible to keep the hospital running smoothly still?
Run the simulation with the default parameters
Change some parameters
Could get them using something like draw.io or Excalidraw?
Choose a system to model from a couple of suggestions (choose some things that are quite simple), or do one of their own systems from their post-it notes earlier.